Scandent shrub; twigs initially fulvo-pilose and tomentellous, later sparsely pilose, dark-red. Leaves opposite, chartaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, acuminate cordate at the base, 2-7 by 1.75-1.5 cm, above shiny and almost glabrous except for the pilose midrib, beneath ap-pressed-pilose on the nerves, not lepidote; nerves 3-6 pairs; petiole 1-3 mm, pilose. Flower in axillary and terminal panicles, bisexual, protogynous, 4-merous, sessile, white; rachis fulvo-pilose. Bracts filiform, fulvo-pilose, 3-4 mm long. Lower receptacle (ovary) 1-1.5 mm long, densely pilose, upper receptacle cupular, 1.5 by 2.5 mm, pilosulous. Calyx lobes ovate-acuminate, 1 by 0.9 mm. Petals 4, broad-ovate, apiculate, 2 by 1.5 mm, pilose. Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, filaments 2.5 mm, glabrous, initially inflexed, anthers 1 mm long, glabrous. Disk inconspicuous. Style 4 mm long, glabrous. Ovules 2.
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